The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Barking Dogs, sentence 96
To her he told his story quickly, briefly, adding also a word of warning.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: tell, add, word · To what, where: story, Woman, word, warning · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Barking Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 her | case |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 briefly | punct |
| 9 | briefly | briefly | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 adding | punct |
| 11 | adding | add | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 told | advcl |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 word | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 adding | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 warning | case |
| 16 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | mistress | mistress's story | Woman | briefly, quickly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to she=Recipient | ||
| 2 | add speech: assert | gerund | mistress not said here | a word of warning | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | ||||
| 3 | word | warning | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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